FlyingSquid , 2 days ago

As long as we have legal slavery, we’ll keep putting people in chains.

FlyingSquid , 2 days ago

See, people keep saying to “eat the rich.” I say “beat the rich.” Not only is it more satisfying, you can do it repeatedly. You can only eat them once.

FlyingSquid , 2 days ago

Tankies: “Russia is simply looking out for its sickest. Do you want them to die, you monster?!”

FlyingSquid , 2 days ago

“We’ll tell you what law you’ve broken after you’ve broken it.”

FlyingSquid , 2 days ago

Cool. Still never flying again unless it’s absolutely necessary. It’s still loud, It’s still expensive, I still have to sit in an uncomfortable airplane seat and I doubt the “extra legroom” is worth the price.

One of the few draws of Southwest was that it was one price for everybody. I guess that’s not true anymore.

FlyingSquid , 2 days ago

Hey guys, I have an idea- how about letting in some immigrants?

What? Robots? Okay, have fun with that.

FlyingSquid , 2 days ago

Sounds like the perfect person to recruit to be a cop. It’s only too bad he didn’t also have a domestic violence conviction. He could have made sheriff for sure.

FlyingSquid , 2 days ago

Why the fuck are members of the DEA even doing a “world debauchery tour?” Why are they leaving the U.S. on the government’s dime at all?

FlyingSquid , 2 days ago

The Reuters reporters didn’t make fentanyl, had no intention to do so, and arranged for safe destruction of the chemicals and other materials they purchased

Nerds.

FlyingSquid , 2 days ago

Good. The uglier they get, the more people will be turned off. Plenty of people who are racist but don’t consider themselves to be racist do not like the overt racists.

FlyingSquid , 2 days ago

MAGA are going to vote for Trump regardless. They’re also only 30% of the country, so he needs more than them to win.

I’m not sure why so many people don’t get that and say things like this.

FlyingSquid , 2 days ago

Yep. My grandmother, born in the first decade of the 20th century, had some pretty racist ideas. But when she lived in the UK, she always voted Labour and when she emigrated to the U.S. and became a citizen, she always voted Democrat. And she died before Obama was elected, but I have no doubt she would have voted for Obama even if she had pretty obvious racist issues with her black next-door neighbor.

Reminds me of the story going around during the 2008 election about the canvasser in the south being told by a white person, “we’re voting for the n-!”

FlyingSquid , 2 days ago

Do they take Americans?

FlyingSquid , 2 days ago

Good, because that is fucking bullshit. Imagine if there was a “black panic defense” where someone claimed that they lost control violently because a black person made a pass at them?

FlyingSquid , 2 days ago

This one isn’t recent. This particular “defense” goes back to the 1960s and it’s based on “science” from the 1920s.

FlyingSquid , 2 days ago

Very few black people in America are making passes at cops. At least not when they know they’re cops.

FlyingSquid , 2 days ago

Not successfully enough for it to become a known phrase.

FlyingSquid , 2 days ago

You know, I’m beginning to think Donald Trump isn’t very nice.

FlyingSquid , 2 days ago

You have no idea how many people brought their partner of another race home to meet their parents knowing that their parents were racist but expecting a different response when it’s their partner.

FlyingSquid , 2 days ago

Okay, but you have two different people saying it. That makes it a lot more likely to be true, doesn’t it?

Edit: make that 11 people per the NYT: archive.is/DAfKp

FlyingSquid , 2 days ago

I told you my point: take a minute and be happy you got what you wanted before moving on to being miserable about the next, related, thing.

FlyingSquid , 2 days ago

You’re not, you’re miserable about something else instead. Specifically, people suggesting that voter apathy helps Trump. Or at least you acted in a pretty miserable way.

FlyingSquid , 2 days ago

It’s fun to expect things. And it’s weird to expect someone to be positive about everything when they were just accusing you of only being miserable about the election.

But yes, I am very positive about the election right now.

FlyingSquid , 2 days ago

You’ve convinced me. I’m not voting for Joe Biden in 2024.

FlyingSquid , 2 days ago

It all was until a few days ago.

FlyingSquid , 2 days ago

That’s nuts. At the very least offer refunds.

FlyingSquid , 2 days ago

In the 80s, and I was 7, we went to Italy and my parents and I went up Mount Etna and I was wearing flip-flops, making it pretty much impossible to walk up a bunch of lava rocks without them slipping off and cutting my feet. My parents only thought I was complaining about the walk until my mother looked down and saw my feet bleeding.

I haven’t been a big fan of them since.

FlyingSquid , 2 days ago

Never.

FlyingSquid , 2 days ago

Worth it.

FlyingSquid OP , 2 days ago

The town I grew up in had both “That Road” and “Lois Lane” and I’m glad I didn’t live on either.

FlyingSquid , 2 days ago

Where does the common definition of ‘Boomer’ say it starts after 1946 (the year Trump was born) and stops with the birth control pill (1960)?

I have never seen such a definition anywhere. Certainly not one that says it starts at least two years after the end of WWII.

FlyingSquid , 2 days ago

I’m amused with all the people who think there’s some hard line where you have to be born before or after some exact year to be of a named generation as if this wasn’t all made up. A baby didn’t get labeled Gen-X if they were born after midnight on a certain day.

As far as I’m concerned, she’s Gen-X. She was 13 when Star Wars came out.

FlyingSquid , 2 days ago

Dude, it’s all made up and there is no hard definition for the years of Gen X.

I mean if you really want to be pedantic about it, the people we call Boomers these days are the original Gen X.

The term Generation X has been used at various times to describe alienated youth. In the early 1950s, Hungarian photographer Robert Capa first used Generation X as the title for a photo-essay about young men and women growing up immediately following World War II. The term first appeared in print in a December 1952 issue of Holiday magazine announcing their upcoming publication of Capa’s photo-essay.

Or maybe it’s people born in the 1950s and 1960s?

The term acquired a modern application after the release of Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, a 1991 novel written by Canadian author Douglas Coupland; however, the definition used there is “born in the late 1950s and 1960s”, which is about ten years earlier than definitions that came later.[16][17][13][18] In 1987, Coupland had written a piece in Vancouver Magazine titled “Generation X” which was “the seed of what went on to become the book”.

Or maybe it’s 1965-1980?

In the U.S., the Pew Research Center, a non-partisan think-tank, delineates a Generation X period of 1965–1980 which has, albeit gradually, come to gain acceptance in academic circles.

Or maybe it’s “Gen X is whatever we decide it is.”

The Brookings Institution, another U.S. think-tank, sets the Gen X period as between 1965 and 1981.[31] The U.S. Federal Reserve Board uses 1965–1980 to define Gen X.[32] The U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) defines the years for Gen X as between 1964 and 1979. The US Department of Defense (DoD), conversely, use dates 1965 to 1977.[33] In their 2002 book When Generations Collide, Lynne Lancaster and David Stillman use 1965 to 1980, while in 2012 authors Jain and Pant also used parameters of 1965 to 1980.[34] U.S. news outlets such as The New York Times[35][36] and The Washington Post[37] describe Generation X as people born between 1965 and 1980. Gallup,[38] Bloomberg,[39] Business Insider,[40] and Forbes[41][42] use 1965–1980. Time magazine states that Generation X is “roughly defined as anyone born between 1965 and 1980”.[43] George Masnick of the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies puts this generation in the time-frame of 1965 to 1984, in order to satisfy the premise that boomers, Xers, and millennials “cover equal 20-year age spans”.[44]

In Australia, the McCrindle Research Center uses 1965–1979.[45] In the UK, the Resolution Foundation think-tank defines Gen X as those born between 1966 and 1980.[46] PricewaterhouseCoopers, a multinational professional services network headquartered in London, describes Generation X employees as those born from 1965 to 1980.[47]

But those are just think tanks. Surely other experts have a specific range, right?

On the basis of the time it takes for a generation to mature, U.S. authors William Strauss and Neil Howe define Generation X as those born between 1961 and 1981 in their 1991 book titled Generations, and differentiate the cohort into an early and late wave.[48] Jeff Gordinier, in his 2008 book X Saves the World, include those born between 1961 and 1977 but possibly as late as 1980.[9] George Masnick of the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies puts this generation in the time-frame of 1965 to 1984, in order to satisfy the premise that boomers, Xers, and millennials “cover equal 20-year age spans”.[44] In 2004, journalist J. Markert also acknowledged the 20-year increments but goes one step further and subdivides the generation into two 10-year cohorts with early and later members of the generation. The first begins in 1966 and ends in 1975 and the second begins in 1976 and ends in 1985; this thinking is applied to each generation (Silent, boomers, Gen X, millennials, etc.).[49]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_X

This isn’t science, it’s categorization based on pretty arbitrary stuff.

FlyingSquid , 2 days ago

I just showed you my point quite well. That there’s no agreed-upon definition of the term like you suggested. All I can think is that you read nothing I pasted.

FlyingSquid , 2 days ago

I guess you didn’t read down very far since it talks about multiple definitions.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_boomers#Date_range_and…

FlyingSquid , 2 days ago

Your words:

That’s kind of the definition. Gen X is 1965 - 1980.

I showed you very clearly that it is one of many definitions of Gen X. Some of them apply to Harris.

FlyingSquid , 2 days ago

Yes, they are defined by a span of years. An arbitrary span no one agrees on. Thus, Generation X not definitively 1965-1980 as you said. Even the U.S. government disagrees with that definition.

It’s anything from the late 1920s to the mid 1980s depending on who you ask.

FlyingSquid , 2 days ago

I did not ask anything. I certainly didn’t ask that:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/300e497a-d3df-4da8-b354-41c220017464.png

Pretty amusing that you’re accusing me of not reading though.

FlyingSquid , 2 days ago

You are not reading very well:

It’s anything from the late 1920s to the mid 1980s depending on who you ask.

Meaning that it is arbitrary.

FlyingSquid , 2 days ago

Okay, sorry about that, but you’re still wrong because it’s anywhere between 1943 and “mid-1946” as per that Wikipedia page.

FlyingSquid , 2 days ago

I guess you still aren’t reading clearly. I’ll make it bigger so you can:

> depending on who you ask.

FlyingSquid , 2 days ago

r/FormerPizzaHuts must be over the moon.

FlyingSquid , 2 days ago

I had to deal with one yesterday that wouldn’t let me in no matter what I did.

So it isn’t even good at figuring out who isn’t a robot.

FlyingSquid , 2 days ago

The only kind I support.

FlyingSquid , 2 days ago

Right in front of the Dunkin, huh? It would be terrible if people kept accidentally spilling their coffee, hot chocolate and the like on it considering you have to immediately scrape bird shit and dead bugs off of it when you get to where you’re going to avoid corrosion. (Really.)

FlyingSquid , 2 days ago

Cool, there are still no good apple cops no matter what your insult “joke” was about.

FlyingSquid , 2 days ago

I wasn’t interested in your analogy. You take the ludicrous position that there being fewer crimes by racist cops has some meaning that there are somehow good cops now, not the fact that laws were absolutely necessary to stop their behavior. And it still didn’t stop it anywhere near as much as it should have. And if those laws were gone, it would go back to being as bad as it was.

I don’t have to sow discord and division, we have an entire group of uniformed people in blue who do that just fine themselves when they do things like shoot an unarmed black woman in her home. You know, this event you seem hell-bent to use to tell us all about how there are good cops.

FlyingSquid , 2 days ago

As some people here already know since I talk about it endlessly, I have a weird medical condition where I have not eating solid foods in almost a year now. You have no idea how much fiber you need just to have decent bowel functions when you start at a base of zero.

I drink four cans of V8 and take 2 Metamucil capsules a day to get me up to about 30g. Still less than the recommended amount, but it’s all I can manage at the moment.

Before that, there were a couple of times when the constipation was so painful that I literally started yelling, “OH FUCK! OH FUCK! OH FUCK!”